Several news outlets today are covering entrepreneur Steve Perlman’s DIDO technology, which claims to support “impossible” levels of capacity over wireless networks. It’s heady stuff. The descriptions promise 10 to 1000-fold gains by delivering individually formed beams to each device, in contrast to current sharing mechanisms that suffer from interference. For me, what’s important is how this illustrates the point that I learned from innovators like David Reed, Tim Shepherd, ...

Today’s official launch of Gig.U, a consortium of universities to facilitate next-generation community broadband opportunities, has tremendous potential. John Markoff has a story about the launch in today’s New York Times. Here’s why I’m hopeful for this project. Broadband is the infrastructure of the 21st century. Easy to say, hard to fully appreciate. It’s especially difficulty to envision broadband scenarios different than the ones we’re used to: commercial access providers ...

Busy updating my Mac to replace the various apps that either no longer run or now suck under OSX 10.7 Lion. # @rycaut PowerPC-only apps have a crossed out icon under Lion. Haven't had much trouble IDing other things that need to upgrade. # OSX Lion has some nice parts, but others make me scratch my head. Hiding the Library folder is eerily reminiscent of Windows. #

@JonHenke The current calls for content access fees in Europe feel like a concerted campaign, + linked to NGN deployment. # Arrived SFO, 2 1/2 hours late. Need to get some sleep before my 6 hours of teaching today! # I'm a business school prof (Wharton). Teaching intro to law & public policy for our SF Executive MBA students. # Sorry, that last one should have been directed to @filos ...

Google+ revealed to be the new version of FoRK: http://youtu.be/CxU0bEOGBBU (If you don't get the reference, pay no mind.) # Stats on 1 million Google+ member profiles. http://bit.ly/oiZTnJ # RT @wa8dzp: The FCC opened its 'Technology Experience Center' (TEC) today: http://fcc.us/pWlcDX (via @TechPolicy) # @FCC You're showing the Matrix? # @FCC: Is it the Matrix? http://twitpic.com/5pkx6c # RT (or the Google equivalent) @davegirouard: "G+ will be awesome for your business ...

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This is the personal blog of Kevin Werbach. I've been studying how networked technologies transform business and society since the early 1990s. I'm a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, policy wonk, connector, dad, gamer, and various other things. Thanks for stopping by.